"Holy crap, my Golden Core is this strong?"
Seeing his new stats, Yang Hong was stunned.
[Yang Hong: Sixth Prince of the Great Sui Dynasty.
Daily灌顶 (Guan Ding) times: 10/10
Lifespan: 33/800
Cultivation: 100 years of True Yuan (Golden Core realm): Strength 6 million jin, Divine Sense 300 li]
[Cultivation Method: Top-tier Breathing Technique Level 65, Advanced Body Tempering Technique Level 1
Martial Skills: Random Punch, Random Saber, Random Sword
Spells: Minor Rain Spell, Universal Salvation Demonic Sound (Perfected)]
[Intent: Fist Intent: Fearless Heroism (90%)
Sword Intent: Gentle Breeze
Special Abilities: Eidetic Memory, Farming Mastery.]
Yang Hong's cultivation had dropped, falling to 100 years in the Golden Core realm.
But his strength had truly exploded.
His strength had directly soared from 580,000 jin to 6 million jin, an astonishing 3,000 tons of power.
A single punch from such strength was equivalent to a ten-kiloton TNT explosion.
Among ordinary late-stage Golden Core cultivators on the Taiyuan Continent, few could achieve even a million jin of pure physical strength.
Now, Yang Hong's physical strength alone could contend with six opponents, and fighting cultivators of the same level was effortless.
His divine sense was also incredibly powerful.
Most early-stage Golden Core cultivators had a divine sense of only 10 li. Even late-stage Golden Core cultivators who could cultivate their divine sense to 100 li were rare.
A divine sense of 300 li was something typically possessed only by Nascent Soul cultivators.
After all, Yang Hong had only just entered the Golden Core realm, with vast room for improvement.
"As expected, with sufficient accumulation, breakthroughs are amazing!"
"Now, in the early Golden Core stage, I dare to directly confront early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators head-on."
"Following the pattern of the Foundation Establishment and Integration realms, my Golden Core cultivation can accumulate up to hundreds of millions of years. Will this make me unbelievably strong?"
Now Yang Hong understood why the immortal cultivation world always said that Golden Core cultivators were the true cultivators.
The fourth-tier Golden Core realm was immensely more powerful than the preceding three realms.
The gap was even greater than that between a first-tier Qi Refining cultivator and an ordinary person.
A Qi Refining cultivator at the early stage might be killed by being ganged up on by ten Grandmaster martial artists.
However, one hundred Integration realm cultivators at the third tier would stand little chance of victory if they ganged up on a Golden Core cultivator.
At the same time, Yang Hong also understood why all cultivators treated the Integration realm as a mere transition.
The difference between them was simply too vast.
It was no wonder most cultivators rushed to break through to the Golden Core realm without proper accumulation.
Yang Hong was fortunate that he could "cultivate" into the Integration realm for tens of millions of years, allowing him to contend with Nascent Soul cultivators from the moment he entered the Golden Core realm.
"Right, my cultivation has broken through. I wonder how much cultivation I can now infuse in a single灌顶."
He thought of another matter, identified the spiritual plants around him, and began a new round of灌顶.
"Ding~ You infused 150 days of cultivation into Iron Wire Grass, receiving a tenfold return and gaining 1500 days of cultivation."
"Ding~ Cultivated Minor Rain Spell for 1500 days, Minor Rain Spell upgraded to Level 46."
"Ding~ You infused 300 days of cultivation into Honeysuckle, receiving a twelvefold return and gaining 3600 days of cultivation."
"Ding~ Cultivated Minor Rain Spell for 3600 days, Minor Rain Spell upgraded to Level 54."
This round of灌顶 improvements was not particularly high. The basic灌顶 was 150 days, and the doubling rule remained unchanged.
Although the increase was not substantial, there was definite progress.
Every bit counts.
Moreover, Yang Hong soon discovered the benefits of his cultivation breakthrough.
"Ding~ Nine-Eyed Cattail Grass has accumulated sufficient energy and is beginning to advance, evolving into a fifth-grade low-tier spiritual plant."
"Ding..."
With Yang Hong's breakthrough to the fourth-tier Golden Core realm, when he infused fourth-tier and below spiritual plants, he could cause them to rapidly advance and evolve.
If ordinary plants received his灌顶, they would be guaranteed to evolve into spiritual plants.
This was one of the benefits of improved energy quality.
While infusing spiritual plants, Yang Hong also began to study formations.
"My cultivation has broken through to the Golden Core realm, and my mind is even more sharp."
He put away a jade slip containing formation knowledge, dispersed his divine sense to guide his True Yuan, and dug out eighty-one third-grade spiritual grasses.
Under the control of his divine sense, the spiritual grasses slowly landed in eighty-one designated positions.
Hooosh~~
As soon as the spiritual grasses were planted, a gentle breeze rose around Yang Hong, and the wind grew stronger.
In just fifteen minutes, within a radius of thirty zhang, a wind wall three zhang high and three chi wide had formed.
Outside and inside the wind wall, the wind was calm. Within the wind wall, grass and trees flew about.
Crackling~~ Crackling~~
As the wind wall persisted, several third-grade spiritual woods that Yang Hong had deliberately left in the middle of the wind wall were first uprooted, then blown into pieces by the wind wall, further enhancing its power.
Seeing the power of the wind wall, Yang Hong nodded with satisfaction.
"Good, good. A first-grade formation, Wind Wall. Using third-grade spiritual plants to set it up, it can directly unleash the power of a second-grade high-tier formation.
Indeed, formation materials can enhance the power of a formation."
"This is still not enough. I want to learn more formations, more advanced formations."
"It's time to let Yu Kewei go out and play. I also need her to bring back some bees and butterflies for me."
Three months had passed since they returned to Jade Stream Island.
Yu Kewei had already absorbed all the demonic beasts and demons on Jade Stream Island. Her cultivation had soared from the sixth-tier Soul Division realm, layer one, to layer four.
In three months, her cultivation had advanced by three minor realms. This was impossible among demons.
Even if a sixth-tier demon consumed a ninth-tier demon core, it couldn't be this fast.
And there were no side effects, with a stable foundation.
This was the power of the Great Bright Buddhist Scripture, a top-grade Earth-tier cultivation method.
Of course, the Scripture for Delivering Souls also played a significant role. Under the transcendence of the Scripture for Delivering Souls, not a single vengeful soul was produced on Jade Stream Island.
And after "consuming" tens of thousands of demonic beasts, Yu Kewei's state of mind was not affected at all; she did not become bloodthirsty.
Therefore, when she heard that Yang Hong wanted her to go out and collect formations, Yu Kewei was ecstatic.
"Master, you are too kind. I will definitely find many, many formations when I go out."
As she spoke, Yu Kewei licked her lips.
Yang Hong glared at her.
"Don't think about taking shortcuts.
Although you used those demon corpses to rapidly improve your cultivation this time, your cultivation has become very superficial."
"Master, my cultivation is very solid, it absolutely cannot be superficial."
Yu Kewei shook her head like a rattle drum, completely disagreeing with Yang Hong's assessment.
"Heh heh~ Then try to take one of my moves."
Seeing Yu Kewei's disapproval, Yang Hong suddenly grinned eerily.
"Hmph~ Try it then.
I am at Soul Division layer four, and Master's current aura is only Golden Core layer one.
Master, be careful not to injure yourself."
Saying this, Yu Kewei stood ten zhang in front of Yang Hong, waiting for him to make a move.
"Heh heh~ I am indeed Golden Core layer one, but my Golden Core is not an ordinary one.
Be careful."
"Sword Intent~ Gentle Breeze!"
Yang Hong did not use a flying sword. He simply pointed his fingers together like a sword.
With just a preparatory stance, a gentle breeze blew within a hundred li radius. The wind was extremely strong,
cutting through the rocks on the ground as if they were tofu.
"Gather!"
Yang Hong pointed his finger forward, and the gentle breeze began to gather around him, gradually turning into a gale.
A sword of gale condensed in front of him, three feet long.
"Holy crap!"
Yu Kewei became agitated and quickly layered various defenses on herself, even summoning the sixth-grade spirit artifact shield she had snatched from King Thunder Roc.
"Go!"
The ten-foot-long gale sword pierced directly towards Yu Kewei.
Bang~ Crackle~ Boom~
Yu Kewei, at sixth-tier layer four, was directly sent flying over a hundred zhang by Yang Hong's sword, smashing into the mountain wall behind her.
It took her a while to climb out.
"Holy crap~ Master is awesome!"